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How Far the Ball Rolled is a free printable Kindergarten science worksheet on using a push test to compare the effect of soft and hard pushes, aligned to NGSS performance expectation K-PS2-1. It prints 7 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions that each ask different questions, so no two students in the class work from the same page. Print it from the browser or download it as a PDF — no account, no email.

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How Far the Ball Rolled

K-PS2-1

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Read the record, then answer the questions.

1.Read the record, then answer the questions.

How Far the Ball Rolled

Our push test. Each child pushed the same ball from the same line. HOW FAR THE BALL ROLLED Soft push ......... 1 step Medium push ....... 3 steps Hard push ......... 6 steps Same ball, same line, same floor.

  1. 1. What would a very hard push do?
  2. 2. What does this record not tell you?
  3. 3. What was kept the same in this test?
2.One child pushes on carpet and one on the hall floor. Is that fair?
  • A.No, the floor should be the same for both
  • B.Yes, it is fair
  • C.Yes, carpet is the same as wood
3.You want the ball to stop sooner. What could you change?
  • A.Use a lighter line
  • B.Push it more gently
  • C.Push it harder
4.Why write down how far each push went?
  • A.To make the page full
  • B.So we can compare the pushes afterward
  • C.So the ball remembers
5.A child pushes very softly. What do you think will happen?
  • A.The ball will roll only a short way
  • B.The ball will go up
  • C.The ball will roll across the whole hall
6.How could you tell which push sent the ball furthest?
  • A.Count the steps to where it stopped
  • B.Listen to it roll
  • C.Look at its color
7.Why does every child push the same ball?
  • A.So nobody loses it
  • B.So only the push is different
  • C.Because it is the biggest ball

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Answer key — How Far the Ball Rolled

Set 23. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. Send the ball further than 6 steps. 2. It does not tell you which way the ball rolled. 3. The same ball, the same line and the same floor.
  2. 2.No, the floor should be the same for both
  3. 3.Push it more gently
  4. 4.So we can compare the pushes afterward
  5. 5.The ball will roll only a short way
  6. 6.Count the steps to where it stopped
  7. 7.So only the push is different

Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to K-PS2-1 of the Next Generation Science Standards.